WinPython 2015-08 (2015-12-12), in 'Panda-color'

Features:

• Highlight:
  • a new WinPython3.5 (Qt4) branch, with 80% of WinPython3.4 features
  • Pandas 0.17.1
  • 3 sizes of Winpython experiment:
    • zero = basic portable Python (even smaller than standard Python),
    • slim = half-size WinPython (Jupyter+Scipy+Spyder+Pandas+Seaborn+Statsmodels+Requests)
    • normal = with all features and speed packages
• New packages:
  • data acquisition: html5lib
  • data crunching: astroml, emcee, pymc
  • data visualization: prompt-toolkit, formlayout (now also available for Qt5)
• Upgrades:
  • data acquisition:
  • data crunching: scikit-learn 0.17 , pandas 0.17.1
  • data visualization: spyder3.0.0b1-20151210, holoviews 1.4.0
• Cleanups:
  • another small 'pure pip' move,
• Removals:
  • WinPython2.7 branch
• Specific Notes:
  • WinPython3.4 'Qt5' remains the 'suggested' branch,
  • WinPython3.4 'Qt4' is kept until PyQt5 becomes available for WinPython 3.5
  • Simplification of Maintenance: changelogs and package lists are no more duplicated on WiKi

Many thanks to Steve Dower, Christoph Gohlke, Carl Kleffner, and Pierre Raybaut for their critical help in the cooking of WinPython 3.5.1 .

Binaries (currently uploading on sourceforge then github):

History of changes for WinPython 3.4.3.7Qt5

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.3.6Qt5.

Python packages

New packages:

• astroml 0.3 (tools for machine learning and data mining in Astronomy)
• emcee 2.1.0 (Kick ass affine-invariant ensemble MCMC sampling)
• formlayout 1.1.0 (Module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters without having to write any GUI code)
• html5lib 0.9999999 (HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML specification)
• lazy-object-proxy 1.2.1 (A fast and thorough lazy object proxy.)
• prompt-toolkit 0.54 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• pymc 2.3.6 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)
• qtawesome 0.2.0 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)
• qtpy 0.1.2 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)
• wcwidth 0.1.5 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)
• wrapt 1.10.5 (A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)

Upgraded packages:

• astroid 1.3.6 → 1.4.1 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))
• baresql 0.7.2 → 0.7.3 (playing SQL directly on Python datas)
• bcolz 0.11.4 → 0.12.1 (columnar and compressed data containers.)
• bqplot 0.4.2 → 0.5.0 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• certifi 2015.9.6.1 → 2015.11.20.1 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)
• cffi 1.3.0 → 1.3.1 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 5.0 → 6.2 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• datashape 0.4.7 → 0.5.0 (A data description language)
• decorator 4.0.4 → 4.0.6 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• guidata 1.7.0b6 → 1.7.4 (Automatically generated graphical user interfaces for easy data set edition and display)
• guiqwt 3.0.0b7 → 3.0.1 (Efficient curve/image plotting and other GUI tools for scientific data processing software development)
• holoviews 1.3.2 → 1.4.0 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.1.1 → 4.2.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 4.0.2 → 4.1.0 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• ipython 4.0.0 → 4.0.1 (Enhanced Python shell)
• ipywidgets 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)
• joblib 0.9.2 → 0.9.3 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)
• keras 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• lmfit 0.9.1 → 0.9.2 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)
• lxml 3.4.4 → 3.5.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)
• markdown 2.6.2 → 2.6.5 (Python implementation of Markdown.)
• matplotlib 1.5.0rc3 → 1.5.0 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))
• nbconvert 4.0.0 → 4.1.0 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)
• numexpr 2.4.4 → 2.4.6 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• pandas 0.17.0 → 0.17.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
• patsy 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Describing statistical models using symbolic formulas)
• psutil 3.2.2 → 3.3.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• py 1.4.30 → 1.4.31 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)
• pylint 1.4.3 → 1.5.1 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
• pymongo 3.0.3 → 3.1.1 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyparsing 2.0.3 → 2.0.6 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.2 → 2.8.4 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• pythonqwt 0.4.0 → 0.5.3 (Qt plotting widgets for Python)
• pytz 2015.6 → 2015.7 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)
• pyzmq 14.7.0 → 15.1.0 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))
• qtconsole 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter Qt console)
• redis 2.10.3 → 2.10.5 (Python client for Redis key-value store)
• requests-toolbelt 0.4.0 → 0.5.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rpy2 2.7.2 → 2.7.4 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))
• rx 1.2.3 → 1.2.4 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-learn 0.16.1 → 0.17 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 18.4 → 18.7.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.0 → 3.8.1 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sphinx 1.3.1 → 1.3.3 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
• sqlparse 0.1.16 → 0.1.18 (Non-validating SQL parser)
• tornado 4.2.1 → 4.3 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))
• twine 1.6.3 → 1.6.4 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)
• werkzeug 0.10.4 → 0.11.2 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• winpython 1.2 → 1.3 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

Removed packages:

• logilab-common 1.1.0 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))